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...Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesserling's well-traveled farce about a couple of homicidal spinsters is a gold mine of potential laughs. The current Lowell House production gathers more than a good handful of surface nuggets...
Died. Joseph Kesselring, 65, author of twelve ephemeral plays and one Broadway gem, Arsenic and Old Lace; of a heart ailment; in Kingston...
...spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison...
...Arsenic, strychnine, phosphorus and thallium salts are effective rat poisons, but far too dangerous where there are children or pets. Probably the oldest of rat poisons is about the most effective and also the safest: red squill, from the ground root of a European plant. Mixed with freshly ground meat or fish baits, it is harmless to children, cats, dogs and even squirrels...
...houses in Michigan, a barn was burned in Southern Ohio, a hog house and 40 pigs went up in flames in Wisconsin. All milk going into Detroit was held up while health officials checked out a report-untrue, as it turned out-that it was laced with arsenic. Some truckloads were diluted with kerosene; in Marshall County, Tenn., at least one was spoiled with garlic...